Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi was not the first glacially preserved human to be found in the mountains of the North Pacific coastal range, and he will not be the last.

The most famous glacially preserved human in the world is Ötzi — the Copper Age man found in the Italian-Austrian Alps in 1991, whose extraordinary preservation has made him one of the most studied ancient individuals in history.

His discovery preceded Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi by eight years and demonstrated to the world that glacial ice could preserve human remains with a completeness that almost no other burial environment could match.

But Ötzi is not the relevant comparison for understanding Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi in his specific context.